Kingswood and Fishponds

10°COvercast

• Today: 13° / 5° · 21% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:03Sunset 16:43

9h 40m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

72US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Bristol St Paul's, United Kingdom

• 6.6 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

489 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences177
• Anti-social behaviour80
• Shoplifting49
• Other theft32

12 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Hillfields · Avon And Somerset

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

753 reported road collisions (2025)

205 killed or seriously injured · 844 casualties · 15.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 390 rated 4–5 ★ (334 top)
• 11 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Stapleton Road (2.8 km)
• 57 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£353,596 average▲ 0.9% YoY

Across Bristol, City of · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,883 average monthly rent▲ 5.9% YoY

• 1 bed £1,225
• 2 bed £1,544
• 3 bed £1,759

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

8.3× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.3 times median annual pay (8.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

5,684 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 137.8p · AppleGreen (7.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (7.3 km)

22 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

140 charging locations within ~8 km

• 39 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Morrisons Bristol Fishponds (0.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Gyms5
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches43
• Playgrounds10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

472,464 residents in Bristol, City of · 4,308/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 70%
• 65+: 13%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK42,460
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK46,335
• Net moves−3,875

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Around the average in England

Ranked 123 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

11% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,714 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band B (36% of 212,810)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

173 schools · 69,087 pupils

102 primary · 22 secondary · 49 other

Ofsted: 63 of 79 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (80%)

152 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Bristol, City of

417 CQC-registered services

• Care homes92
• GP practices69
• Dentists104
• Homecare agencies95
• Hospitals & hospices15

CQC ratings: 98% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Bristol, City of

• Not in the Green Belt
• 34 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

552 applications decided

85.5% granted · 472 granted, 80 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Damien Egan

Labour

Bristol North East

Source: UK Parliament

Green (minority)

• Lab 19
• Con 7
• LD 9
• Grn 34
• Oth 1

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools16
• GPs & clinics10
• Pharmacies4
• Supermarkets11
• Parks & greens19
• Restaurants & cafés87

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

22,300 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£781 median full-time weekly pay

3.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,336 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

45% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 237,774 certificates

10.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

1% low-carbon electricity

Gas 99% · Wind 1%

389 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South West England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.4 yrs women · 79.1 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 60.1 women · 60.1 men

59% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.3
• Happiness yesterday7.2
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

17 GP surgeries · 10 pharmacies in BS16

• Blackberry Hill Hospital - Bcss Inpatient Unit
• Fishponds Family Practice
• The Downend Health Group

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Bristol North East:

• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks464 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND253 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases182 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Make statutory maternity pay 90% of wage for first 12 weeks & minimum wage after176 local signatures · 58,157 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth116 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Lodge Causeway · 0.3 km

  Lodge Causeway is an ancient passage through the former Royal Forest of Kingswood and now the main road between Fishponds and Kingswood in Bristol, England. The road is designated the B4048.

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  Fishponds railway station · 0.3 km

  Fishponds railway station was a station in Fishponds, Bristol, England, which was closed by Dr Beeching's cuts in the 1960s.

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  Hillfields, Bristol · 0.6 km

  Hillfields is an area and ward of north-east Bristol.

• Mayfield Park, Bristol · 0.7 km

  Mayfield Park is a residential area in East Bristol, with a large adjoining park known as the Ridgeway Rd Playing Fields.

• Fishponds · 0.7 km

  Fishponds is a suburb in the north-east of the English city of Bristol, about 3 miles (5 km) from the city centre. It is mainly residential, and housing is typically terraced Victorian. It has a small student populati…

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  Speedwell, Bristol · 0.7 km

  Speedwell is an area of east Bristol, Part of the Hillfields ward, it has a mixture of residential and industrial land.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)